Rubbish provokes outrage

FAIRFIELD residents are outraged with the amount of rubbish they say is regularly dumped on their street.

Hamilton Road resident Andrew Nicholson said the most recent pile of rubbish had been on the footpath for more than a week before the council came to remove it.

He said this was a regular occurrence.

"To make matters worse, there seems to be a broken sewerage pipe, which leaks waste across the footpath and into the roadside gutter," Mr Nicholson said.

"This is utterly unacceptable and a danger to human health. Why do people on Hamilton Road have to put up with constant barricades of rubbish or push their children in strollers into oncoming traffic to try and escape an open sewer leaking across the council footpath?"

A Fairfield council spokeswoman said action had been taken.

"The council has dealt with the sewer overflow issue and an emergency order was issued last Friday to the managing agent to have the lines repaired in the coming days," she said. "The occupier made arrangements last Thursday with waste enforcement to have the rubbish removed off the footpath."